Don't Forget Your Music

Music of Sally Greenaway
Commissioned by Bangalow Music Festival

When composing the work, Greenaway drew inspiration from the following key questions:

How do we reach our full potential? What does it take to get to the top of our game? Passion? Commitment? Sacrifice? Motivation? Grit? Obsessive devotion? 10,000+ hours of focused practice or study? Genetics?

Pull up your sleeves and hold on tight - the musicians are in it to win it in the mad dash to the finish line!

Commissioned by Bangalow Music Festival in 2016 to specially feature Southern Cross Soloists.

The piece has since been rescored for strings with piano for the University of Canberra to feature Wicked-Strings! Ensemble at the university's graduation ceremonies.

Don't Forget Your Music

Instrumentation: Septet: Flute, Clarinet, String Quartet, Piano
Category: Chamber: Trio to Large Ensemble; Woodwind instruments
Year: 2016
Work duration: 6min 30sec
Commissioned by: Bangalow Music Festival

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Don't Forget Your Music

Instrumentation: Quintet: String Quartet, Piano: Optional addition of Double Bass to make Sextet sized ensemble
Category: Chamber: Trio to Large Ensemble; String instruments
Year: 2018
Work duration: 6min 30sec
Commissioned by: (this arrangement) Tim Wickham (Wicked-Strings!) and University of Canberra

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Versions of this work appear in these recordings

Don't Forget Your Music
Sally Greenaway
Released 2021

Performed by David Shaw, Philip Arkinstall, Barbara Jane Gilby, Timothy Wickham, Iska Sampson, Samuel Payne and Edward Neeman

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